800 dude wrote:
No single workout is going to blow your load unless it takes so much out of you that you can hardly run the next week. Short of that, the risks are either (1) having such a workout too close to the peak race so that you're not fully recovered or (2) sustained and chronic overtraining that ultimately suppresses the adaptive response to training. In the latter circumstance, the monster workout can contribute, but it's not the sole cause.
Agree. The OP should follow-up with what Stinson's done since, how does he recover from that 35k without overtraining. It would also be interesting to see what he was doing before that long tempo run.
Who convinced so many of these U.S. guys (or coaches) not to race or not to race something shorter than a 1/2 or 20k before marathons? A road 10k might be a better indicator of what he could be capable of racing and should be easier to recover from. I hope he races well, but I'm seeing a familiar pattern that produced disappointing results from other U.S. runners.